Example sentences of "it [vb past] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why it failed to be a British launching pad for Continental-style progress in traffic calming is an issue well worth investigating . |
| 2 | It got to be a bloody bind . |
| 3 | It got to be hard to handle , so she bought herself a small file box and some packages of 2 × 3 cards . |
| 4 | It got to be such a strain , though . |
| 5 | It 's a question of safety , it got to be |
| 6 | Er ploughmen and horsemen were the elite of farm workers and the sons would could only aspire to do what they did and And er eventually I suspect it got to be a little more organized and er they had these little games of of ploughing matches , maybe in a rudimentary farm to begin with , but it eventually came to be as we see it today , over a long period of time . |
| 7 | It became to be regarded as one of the finest printers in Europe and , as such , flourished until the middle of the nineteenth century . |
| 8 | I used to have a file , but I found that , as with so many files one opens , I was putting so much in it that it ceased to be useful . |
| 9 | Apologists for the House of Lords argue that it ceased to be the exclusive preserve of the upper classes with the creation of Life Peerages in 1958 . |
| 10 | Heretics posed a more serious problem , but , happily , after the elimination of the aggressively Arian Vandal kingdom in North Africa , and the conversion of the Arian Goths and Burgundians to Catholicism , it ceased to be a pressing practical one . |
| 11 | Prisoners passed through the place so fast that it ceased to be a camp in the true sense altogether . |
| 12 | This usually put Dad to rights but must have been pretty potent stuff as it ceased to be available after the war . |
| 13 | In the eighteenth century it ceased to be needed as a fortress in the military sense , and in the latter part of that century the conversion of the inside into a palace was begun . |
| 14 | On his view the fact that it ceased to be a probability , and did occur , is something that might not have happened . |
| 15 | ‘ In determining the total liability of an institution to a depositor for the purposes of subsection ( 1 ) above , or the liability or total liability of an institution to a depositor for the purposes of subsection ( 2 ) above , no account shall be taken of any liability in respect of a deposit if … ( c ) the institution is a former authorised institution and the deposit was made after it ceased to be an authorised institution or a recognised bank or licensed institution under the Banking Act 1979 unless , at the time the deposit was made , the depositor did not know and could not reasonably be expected to have known that it had ceased to be an authorised institution , recognised bank or licensed institution . ’ |
| 16 | Opera soon ceased to be a severely intellectual form of art and with the opening of the first public opera-house in Venice in 1637 it ceased to be an exclusively aristocratic one , though it seldom flourished without princely or aristocratic support . |
| 17 | The State of Kuwait , which became independent in 1961 when it ceased to be a British protectorate , is governed by the Amir ( currently Shaikh Jabir al Ahmad al Jabir as Sabah ) , who is chosen by and from among the royal family , and who appoints the Council of Ministers . |
| 18 | The sundial was a small object and , once the Earl had detached it ( as he did many years earlier ) from its pedestal , it ceased to be part of the realty . |
| 19 | Virtually all of this information was routinely destroyed as soon as it ceased to be useful ( for example , once a set of negotiations had been terminated or a product discontinued ) . |
| 20 | It ceased to be such a good bargain . |
| 21 | He looked at the old man , peering darkly under his down-drawn brows ; and there was one who would have questioned and writhed and wondered , pondering long before he would have given any answer , and then , most likely , regretting the answer he had given , whatever it chanced to be . |
| 22 | The Saturday Review said that there were only four entries that it deemed to be good enough to be designated Gothic , but Clarke 's catalogue listed a further fourteen Gothic schemes . |
| 23 | The Thatcher government continued this process , much more zealously , developing a formula which deliberately penalized those authorities it deemed to be over-spenders . |
| 24 | It developed a power which enabled it to ‘ rate cap ’ a group of authorities whom it deemed to be high spenders . |
| 25 | He submitted that it was quite clear that the FPC reached a considered decision as what it found to be the proper level of use of the deputising service consistently with maintaining the doctor 's primary responsibility and as regards the need to maintain the standards of the deputising service efficiently and consistently with that obligation . |
| 26 | And it promised to be the most weird — was definitely the most lethal . |
| 27 | It promised to be another brilliant day . |
| 28 | It promised to be a microcosm of Lancashire life in the depressed ‘ thirties . |
| 29 | All in all , it promised to be another heavenly day , she thought , feeling her spirits rise almost perceptibly . |
| 30 | As you can view , world peace is not all it promised to be , so if your planet ever has the choice of voting for world peace , do not follow the example of the planet Earth . |